Oh, yes, DDT would cure us of Malaria, Plague, Chumbawumba ?, measles, chickenpox, mumps, measles, insomnia, pimples, and dandruff. If only is was legal to use on insect disease vectors ....OH WAIT, IT IS !!!

as far as I know, there is no law prohibiting manufacture. What you can NOT legally do is use it without a permit from the EPA.

DDT was manufactured by US petrochemical outfits for export for more than a decade after its permit for use on field crops was withdrawn. Gradually it's use declined because of insecticide resistance development (it stopped working) and lower priced competitors from places like Mexico etc.

DDT has been permitted a number of times since the permit for use on crops was withdrawn in 1976 - many dept of health have used DDT on gopher burrows during bubonic plague outbreaks.

As I understand the situation, mosquitoes were developing resistance to DDT about the time it was banned. Of course, there have been many generations of mosquitoes since that time, so bringing it back might work nicely.

Rachel Carson was yet-another liberal narcissist who, as such folks are wont to do, caused great harm to the human race. Nixon's EPA Director, Ruckelhaus, who unfortunately still lives amongst us, banned DDT without any scientific evidence. The tyranny of bureaucrats!

About 10 years ago I had a conversation with a well-known eco-wacko who was at the time the head of a major science department at a huge midwestern university. In discussing anthropogenic glocal warming, I noted that all studies indicated that nothing the U.S. did would matter. She calmly looked at me, and said "you're right, but it would make me feel better".

That's really all one needs to know about liberalism. Michael Savage is almost always wrong, but he's right on this topic: liberalism is a mental disorder.

My malaria drug of choice has been Doxycycline based on the research I did. There are three choices currently. Wonder how Doxy is holding up? DDT is actually back, but they only use it for spraying walls down indoors. It was cleared for use by the WHO in 2006, and other studies after that. I am not sure why it is not being widely sprayed like it was in Western countries to eradicate malaria, which is causing documented cases of human suffering & dying, vs. possible reduces sperm counts and other supposed evils. I don't know what is causing us not to spray. I know a lot of elites still think DDT is unsafe, and maybe they are keeping the UN and the US from funding the spraying? No idea. In the meantime they give people nets or spray indoors, basically saying to Africa: "we will allow you to try to hide from this, but not to eradicate it". Makes no sense.

DDT has been in use to control mosquitoes continuously since it's invention. The Stockholm Convention fanatics tried to get it banned but lost the battle. At this time, any country that wishes to can obtain a permit to use DDT from the UN or other orgs. Currently, most countries with a Malaria problem have permits if they are interested in having one.

The reality is that all of those countries do not have the organizational skills, resources, or political will to eradicate Malaria, which is the real problem. DDT is not the problem; human foibles are.

But we have massive aid organizations organized around food, healthcare, clean water, electricity, etc - why nothing on using DDT to eradicate malaria. Because the US and the UN won't spend money on it due to elitism or what? Seems like low hanging fruit to save lives for an aid organization compared to distributing mosquito nets.

Carson died of cancer in 1964. DDT's permit was withdrawn for use on crops in the US in 1976.

Explain exactly how Carson came back from the dead to "deep-six[ed] lifesaving pesticide", please !! So, it is your contention that ALL pesticides were deep-sixed ? Or perhaps just not those that are not lifesaving ? Or ALL pesticides ? So, nobody could use ANY pesticide ? Or it was illegal because Carson was dead so everybody else had to be dead too ? It's all so confusing...

Explain how come the US companies continued to produce and sell DDT for export for over a decade after it was deep-sixed ? Also explain how even today any country that has not signed the Stockholm Convention can use DDT all they like. Explain how any signitory can use DDT with a permit ?

Explain exactly when the Stockholm Convention was ratified (2001). Who exactly made it ILLEGAL to use DDT anyplace except the USA from 1976 thru 2001

Reality is stranger than fiction. Carson has no culpability for subsequent DDT fanaticism. Carson was an advocate of intelligent use of pesticides with a system called integrated pest management which is now 100% the method used to control pests. Carson had no problem with using DDT or any pesticide to control insect disease vectors and said so quite plainly in Silent Spring.

This meme is simply BS brought to us by a cynical politician named Bates. It's potemkin villages all the way down, as someone around here likes to say.

DDT would only be needed for a few years if we, the human race, followed the Fred Soper approach worldwide.

The prob would be the same as in Soper's day, tho: incentive traps whereby local tinpots, incl these days enviro groups, could arrogate more power to themselves by scuttling the project in select areas.

"Widespread availability of artemisinin monotherapies, poor-quality artemisinin-based combination therapies and monotherapies containing subtherapeutic amounts of active ingredients, and unregulated use of antimalarial agents, plus the unusual genetic structure of parasites in this region,may have contributed to the selection of resistant parasites."

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